Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-10-22
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Rainy weather work-repairing
tools.
Selling Off the young stock is CIV
ing a large share of the profits of the
farm to the purchaser. Don't do it
Rural Nee Yorker.
The small potatoes may be cooked
and fed TO the pigs and poultry. Al
ways sort out the potatoes and have
them as uniform in size as possible be-
fore marketing them.-N. T. Times,
A writer in the Boston Herald
claims 10 know from long experience
that cedar boughs laid on shelves II in
corners infested with ants Of any color
will drive them away. Green tanSy is
equally good.
Brown Bread. -Two-thirds of a
cup of molasses, two cups o IL milk,
II cup sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls
soda, one of salt, one cup flour, four
cups corn meal, Steam three hours
and brown a few minutes in the oven.
former and N~aRutactHrer,
Slip Custard.-Take one quart of
milk, heat slightly, and add one tea
spoonful of prepared rennet, and one
OF sugar; mix thoroughly and flavor
with any extract desired; put on ice to
cool, and serve with cream and pow
dcred sugar.-GriStiam Union.
Virginia Watlles. Take three pints
of sweet milk and one tablespoonful of
butter, put together in a pan on the
stove until the butter melts, add five
we'll beaten eggs, one ~teaspoonful of
salt, two tablespoons of yeast. and
three pints of flour. Let rise three
hours before baking Good cheer.
The best and most hygienic corsets
are made without w%halebone except at
the back where they are laced. They
should not be made of close stuff, such
as jeans or satinettc. This material,
stinly starched, shuts in pcrspiration,
and condenscs it on the skin, and keeps
the undergarments damp and chilly.
Can any good farmer who knows
how to write say there is not q duty
resting upon him to communicate the
lessons Of his experience TO others that
need instruction that will open the
way for better returns forlabor? Every
agricultural paper will receive with
pleasure communications that impart
instruction.-BoSton Budgct.
Preparing Ncgctables.-m many
families in the country the kitchen
1ardenin the summer and the cellar in
the winter, furnish n large part of the
supplies for the table. Many vegetables
are more nutricious than meat or bread,
but they require proper preparation to
be palatablc, and more attention should
be paid to this class of food than is
sometimes done.-Farn, Feld and
~St0ckman.
Fruit Cake.-One cup butter, one
cup sugar, one-half pint New Orleans
molasses, two eggs, one cup sou milk,
n teaspoon soda, onc pound flour, one
pound r]aisius, one and onc-half pounds
currants, the grated peel of u lemon,
one teaspoonful cloves, one Of allspice
and two of cinnamon. Reserve II hand
full of flour to thoroughly flour the
fruit, and add it last. Bake in u loaf
one hour,-BoSton Budget.
There is Il big boom in poultry cir
eles, especially of new breeds. Poul-
try papers are also springing up by the
score, almost, Where ten or fifteen
years ago the number of journals de-
voted to poultry interests could be
counted ON the fingers, now they num-
Der up in the hundreds, and more COM
ing. To a careful observer this boom
has Al unhealthy look. The questions
which naturally arise are; What will it
lead TOP VIII not the poultry interests
Of the country be crippled by this over
doing?-Erchdnge.